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Poetry’s Mad Instead

Most people do not read poetry. According to a 2018 survey, only 12 percent of adults in the United States (nearly 28 million people) had

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The Baptism of the Spirit

Have you been baptized? What does your baptism mean to you? Did you do it or was it done to you? Were you baptized as

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Cosmic Companionship

During the long and difficult days of the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. and his family received daily death threats as he led

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CRT and the Christian School

Conversations about the latest culture war topic du jour, Critical Race Theory (CRT), are brewing in my community at Holland Christian High School and many

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Packing for Au Sable

I am packing for my summer teaching gig at Au Sable Institute, both physically and mentally. Mental packing means preparing for earnest discussions we always

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Consciousness in a Petri Dish?

Early last semester a headline in the journal Nature caught my eye: Neanderthal-like “Mini-brains” Created in the Lab with CRISPR. I bookmarked the article and

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If I Went to Church…

“If I went to church, I’d go to yours.” Many times I have heard people say something like this. They intend it as a compliment,

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Barefoot on Holy Ground

I have spent my life studying the Bible and trying to teach it in such a way that students could experience it as living and

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